Korea Open 2018

[Atas Newton]

I thought something was up, googled if she was naturalized like Jeon Jihee but didn't find anything. From her positioning to her technique, everything screams Chinese. Also very good off the table, her loops actually loop like crazy and she emanates that confidence where you know she'll probably win, she knows it and her opponent knows it as well, the kinda thing you see with the Chinese players.

 

[zeio]

Yup, Choi is originally from Jilin in Northeast China and moved to South Korea around 2015. Therefore, she has had plenty of Chinese concepts drilled into her.

SYS taken out by Ishikawa. So much for "my form is recovering all right."

 

[zeio]

Ito says I eat choppers for breakfast, too.

 

[ping fun]

I hope ishikawa kazumi can have the same results vs top chinese players like LSW , DN or the younger ones ZYL and CM . Also some news came out that tells Chinese players Zhang Jike, Fang Bo, Yan An, Zhou Qihao and Feng Yalan are withdrawing from the #2018 Australian Open of the #2018 July 24th -29 .

 

[NextLevel]

Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan and Fan Zhendong are the young stars. FZD is the most consistent with a tough mentality.

Liang uses majority of BH during a game. Not a lot of variety.

Lin plays more various shots. But we know he needs to toughen up his mentality. Hopefully this will improve when he's a bit older.

But when these three stars turn 30, Harimoto will be early 20s. Hari can easily get two Olympic Gold consecutively if China doesn't produce any competitor. So far I can't see any hope apart from Wang Chuqin. But will see.

Passionate about TT

Niu Guankai.

 

[mrk]

Xu Xin lost 1-4 to Jang Woojin, another poor result from him.

 

[Loopadoop]

Mizutani 4-2 Ovtcharov

 

[vik]

Do you have stream?Inether ittv or laola

 

[JesperStef]

Naturally, live streaming breaks down just before the start of Harimoto vs LJK...

 

[anjoooo]

Yeah... Not working for me either

 

[WorkerBee]

me neither, in New York

 

[vik]

Why don´t they use simply youtube?Wh do they need laola?Always black screen

 

[anjoooo]

It's back online. But no sound...

 

[anjoooo]

And no score...

 

[vik]

nw Nw ids working but no score harimoto

 

[zeio]

One reason CNT players are having trouble in the World Tour is that they're not used to the idea of competing abroad so often. They prefer to spend more time on training and use the World Tour to tune up before the majors.

With the World Ranking reform, they're now forced to use competition for training instead, a model that fits perfectly well with the ideal of the JNT. Ito, for instance, has said she likes playing matches MUCH more than working on the basics.

OTOH, this competition-oriented approach doesn't sit well with the CNT. They have to field their B team players to the World Tour WAY more than before, many of which are supposed to play the role of copy players, serving the few cream-of-the-crop players. The "no separation of association" is completely at odds with their central idea of working as a team. Now you have these copy players thinking "perhaps I have a chance to make it big, too." You could sense the team spirit is not as solid anymore.

Another factor is that there has been a restructuring of the analytics team. Recent rumor has it the team has been dissolved. Li Xiaodong used to lead the team but he retired some time after Rio Olympics. Liu Heng is supposed to be the team leader now, and he once wrote on his Weibo denouncing the rumor.

However, the CTTA have recently issued a request for tender on a whole range of services in sports and health science for the players. This suggests the team is definitely going through a significant change at the moment.

 

[vik]

is it 3.1 for Liang?

 

[zeio]

Looks like 2:0 for LJK at the moment.

Oh, the score is up now. 3:0 for LJK

 

[NextLevel]

Looks like he has match point.

 

[Garrison]

Tomo got rekt today